was browsing mfa guides idkwhy but saw this explanation for Japanese streetwear. Is this...accurate?

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SuperFlat theory: This is a concept posited by Takashi Murakami, a Japanese contemporary artist. Although initially applied to art and otaku culture, it can more widely attempt to explain Japanese society as a whole and by extension, street fashion. The central tenet of this theory is that since the 1990’s Japanese society has been characterized by its flatness. ‘Flatness’ here means that Japanese society has become purely interested in the visual. There is no depth of meaning to culture and everything has become commercialized. The Japanese are the ultimate consumers. The increase in heavily branded designer merchandise is at least in part a result of Japanese obsession with branding. (Incidentally, Murakami designed a very popular bag for LV). In a world where it is hard to tell the difference between image and object, some brands attempt to differentiate themselves solely through logos (for example Supreme, which became very popular in Japan). The logo becomes the design element. SuperFlat is all image and no meaning.

Eh.... superflat as a movement is pretty vapid in its entirety, but I don't think that poster is right. Well, more specifically, he himself is guilty of flat, superficial analysis And Japanese obsession with branding? That's not a strictly Japanese phenomena. That's present in any country that is influenced by unhealthy consumption behaviors (pretty much any country that modernized late and has been introduced to the woes of capitalism). Look at Korea and China. And never forget our grand savior, hermes man, who hails from Malaysia, iirc.

I feel like this has to have been asked before; but I couldn't find much with a search: recommendations for jeans with roomy thigh and sharp taper? Normally wear Uniqlo skinny tapered all the time; but thighs are too big from lifting now